The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), also known as Loreto, was founded by Mary Ward at St. Omar in Flanders in 1609. Today there are Loreto schools on five continents. The mission of Loreto Convent in Strand, similar to other Loreto schools, is to be an all-inclusive value-centred community that provides a distinctive faith-based learning experience that will contribute to the academic, moral and spiritual formation that develops and fosters each learner’s gifts and potential. Loreto gives priority to the integration of the spiritual, intellectual, moral, physical and emotional development of the individual person of the child. Loreto Convent strives to provide a vibrant, holistic and all inclusive learning community, where each learner is valued and nurtured towards their own full potential. Freedom, dignity, personal integrity, moral courage and social responsibility are emphasized through the Catholic ethos of the school...

"Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way. " - Zig Ziglar A school is an institution where children are nurtured and above all, loved. In this school's existence, this is and has been the most essential and unifying tool of encouragement. How else would a school have achieved so much over 200 years? ! This is why Somerset-West Primary School is such a unique school. We do not cater only for a select group of people, but for anyone who aspires to greatness, to all those who believe in the dream that one's own future can be created, as long as one is prepared to work hard.